0 The Brothers Karamazov
‘What should I say to my boy if I took money from you
for our shame?’
And then he ran on without turning. Alyosha looked af-
ter him, inexpressibly grieved. Oh, he saw that till the very
last moment the man had not known he would crumple
up and fling away the notes. He did not turn back. Alyo-
sha knew he would not. He would not follow him and call
him back, he knew why. When he was out of sight, Alyosha
picked up the two notes. They were very much crushed and
crumpled, and had been pressed into the sand, but were
uninjured and even rustled like new ones when Alyosha
unfolded them and smoothed them out. After smoothing
them out, he folded them up, put them in his pocket and
went to Katerina Ivanovna to report on the success of her
commission.